Saturday, August 16, 2008

Indians dominates World Junior Chess Championships: So finished the championship with respectable 8-14th place


The newest Indian chess hero GM Abhijeet Gupta

GM Wesley So drew his final match against GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam to finally closed his campaign in this years edition of World Junior Chess Championship in Turkey. So finished the tournament with 8 1/2 points, same score as seven others. With the result, Wesley improved his 20th placed finished last year and we can all bet that next years edition is going to be even more memorable for this young Pinoy chess phenom. Another young Filipino bet, Haridas Pascua also drew his final match against FM Ronchetti Niccolo of Italy to finished with 6 1/2 points in tied for 51-68th place out of 109 competitors. Meanwhile India continue to amaze the chess world by conquering both the boys and girls division. GM Abhijeet Gupta won against David Howell in a dramatic fashion to win the World Junior Championship title. World Junior Girls Championship title was already secured by the top seed Indian GM Harika Dronavalli after her draw against Katerina Nemcova since she already had a full point gap with her nearest rival.

My "bombay" neighbours in our community have something to raise their heads high up once again for many days to come. Congrats to Wesley for this remarkable achievement and to Haridas as well in spite of the odds. In the meantime, two members of the Philippine under 16 Olympiad in Turkey, Jan Emmanuel Garcia and Alcon Datu with their Coaches GM Bong Villamayor and IM Idel Datu, will be joining GM Wesly So and Haridas Pascua to continue the Philippines quest to regain its status as one of the world chess powerhouse. Best wishes

- Official Website

Final Rankings

RankSNo.
NameRtgFEDPts
119GMGUPTA Abhijeet2551IND10
226GMNEGI Parimerjan2529IND
3-723IMBRAUN Arik2533GER9

14GMHOWELL David2561ENG9

28GMSAFARLI Eltaj2527AZE9

16WGMHOU Yifan2557CHN9

13GMAMIN Bassem2561EGY9
8-142GMRODSHTEIN Maxim2605ISR

11GMSO Wesley2577PHI

9GMNGUYEN Ngoc Truong Son2579VIE

29IMMELKUMYAN Hrant2507ARM

8GMZHIGALKO Sergei2583BLR

33GMWEN Yang2487CHN

21IMSJUGIROV Sanan2545RUS
15-1910GMLE QUANG Liem2577VIE8

17IMKRAVTSIV Martyn2555UKR8

1GMMAMEDOV Rauf2627AZE8

4GMLAZNICKA Viktor2601CZE8

53IMDURARBEYLI Vasif2413AZE8
20-366GMLI Chao B2590CHN

20GMPOPOV Ivan2549RUS

24GMRAMIREZ Alejandro2531CRC

52
LIN Chen2417CHN

3GMANDREIKIN Dmitry2604RUS

22GMLEON HOYOS Manuel2543MEX

36IMBOROS Denes2472HUN

31IMARUN Prasad Subramanian2492IND

30IMHAMMER Jon Ludvig2494NOR

37IMCAN Emre2460TUR

35FMNECHEPURENKO Roman2476RUS

12GMGEETHA Narayanan Gopal2572IND

40IMSENGUPTA Deep2454IND

44IMASHWIN Jayaram2436IND

5GMBARAMIDZE David2593GER

55IMKARTHIKEYAN Pandian2402IND

88
SIRIN Atakan2107TUR
37-5025GMBRKIC Ante2530CRO7

34IMSANIKIDZE Tornike2486GEO7

7GMLENIC Luka2584SLO7

27GMRAGGER Markus2527AUT7

15GMITURRIZAGA Bonelli Eduardo Pat2561VEN7

18IMKHAMRAKULOV Dzhurabek2554UZB7

47IMKALASHIAN David2432ARM7

48FMTOUFIGHI Tamijani Homayoon2425IRI7

41IMPRUIJSSERS Roeland2452NED7

46FMBARATOSI Daniel2433ROU7

56IMKORE Akshayraj2392IND7

65FMDJURAEV Sokhib2324TJK7

68
YAKSIN Oleg2307RUS7

61
KULAKOV Viacheslav2360RUS7
51-6850FMROMBALDONI Denis2418ITA

39IMSWIERCZ Dariusz2456POL

49IMPOTAPOV Pavel2418RUS

58FMNARMONTAS Matas2369LTU

42IMTOMCZAK Jacek2451POL

45FMRONCHETTI Niccolo2434ITA

57FMBENIDZE Davit2389GEO

66
ABDULOV Orkhan2318AZE

32IMPAPADOPOULOS Ioannis2490GRE

43FMGEORGESCU Tiberiu2442ROU

70FMDRAGICEVIC Drazen2302SWE

54
CASPI Israel2412ISR

75
RZAYEV Bahruz2245AZE

59
ENCHEV Ivajlo2367BUL

62
ANTON Teodor2353ROU

84
HARIDAS Pascua2174PHI

76
NUKIN Askhat2244KAZ

69FMGROVER Sahaj2306IND
69-7838IMSTUPAK Kirill2458BLR6

60FMPACHER Milan2361SVK6

51IMVOCATURO Daniele2417ITA6

82
ALVAREZ RAMIREZ Miguel Angel2194MEX6

73
MIJOVIC Stefan2289MNE6

72FMMARTINS Vinicius Tine2292BRA6

74
SARENAC Ivan2289SRB6

85
HUGHES Tyler B.2161USA6

78
MCPHILLIPS Karl2221IRL6

89
ILIC Slavisa2081BIH6
79-8990
LORTKIPANIDZE Nodar2080GEO

67
NEIMER Vitaly2316ISR

63
VISHNU Prasanna Vasanthan Peru2341IND

77
CONSTANTINOU Peter2225ENG

79
VAVRIC Pavel2218MDA

81
OLIVER Gareth2196AUS

83
APAYDIN Fethi2187TUR

80
NIEMI Mikko2214FIN

71
PLENCA Julijan2295CRO

107
SALIHOVIC Amar0BIH

93
GURCAN Eray1955TUR
90-10064FMKJARTANSSON Gudmundur2328ISL5

92
DERUNI Berc2032TUR5

86
ERTAN Can2149TUR5

87
SOUSA Ricardo2133POR5

91
AYDOGDU Ataman2050TUR5

94
KOBAYASHI Atsuhiko1936JPN5

97
ACARBAY Aydin1825TUR5

108
ULUDOGAN Lutfullah0TUR5

95
ZUBAIDULLIN Rustam1929RUS5

105
OZTOSUN Cinar0TUR5

109
UNLU Ahmet Turan0TUR5
1001-10496
VURAL Ozge1853TUR

98
RAMSURRUP Pratish1809RSA

104
OZOGLU Berker0TUR

99
OZDOVER Mustafa Berkay1768TUR
105-106103
JAISWAL Raushan Kumar0NEP4

100
GOKCEK Ekrem Bugra0TUR4
107106
OZTOSUN Gorkem0TUR3
108101
GOKCEK Metehan0TUR2
109102
GUNGOR Ali GĆ¼venƧ0TUR1

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